Welcome all to the first Diggings for 2019. Sorry about the hiatus but Xmas and NY you know...still plenty of turnover in this ed.I think Golding is one of the cleverest food deploying cartoonists in Oz Here’s the seafood Australians eat (and what we should be eating) Crustaceans and low-omega 3 fish, such as basa and …
Diggings 28 October 2018
A more than usually depressing Compost edition: hopefully the cartoons will lighten the mood, particularly Golding's riffs on my favourite Aussie icon, the democracy sausage occasioned by the by-election in the seat of Wentworth, New South Wales. The new normal? How climate change is making drought worse ‘For people suffering from lack of income, both …
Diggings 29 September 2018
UN Human Rights Council passes a resolution adopting the peasant rights declaration in Geneva Seventeen years of long and arduous negotiations later, peasants and other people working in rural areas are only a step away from having a UN Declaration that could defend and protect their rights to land, seeds, biodiversity, local markets and a lot …
Diggings 26 August 2018
World's oldest cheese confirmed in Egyptian tomb — but it may be filled with a deadly disease ‘Aged cheeses might have an appeal, but a 3,200-year-old sample of the popular dairy product found in Egypt may be just a little too old — and diseased — for even the most dedicated cheese connoisseurs.’ Pity …
